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The Clifton clarion., 1887-05-25

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 ~ TO CORRESPONDENTS. - When re-scnal matter. are the srhiect of commr- hs.st'ons.a ricnrous scrutiry will he made sf their contents. Ple-sa sign full n,ma --it: onl? on enc siGa of your paper and bc Brief.
The Clifton clarion., 1887-05-25

THE Silver City Sentinel has changed hands. Chas. M. Shannon having disposed of bis interest therein to A. J. Loomis. formerly of the DaminC Headlight.
The Clifton clarion., 1887-05-25

First publication April 27.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1887-06-04
PRICE THREE CENTS.

blowing for the Indians. An explanation
that the instructors duty was 10 teach them
TO pillow for themselves so subdued the chief
that In two weeks time he showed twelve
acres Of prairie land broken and planted.
Such Ideas are common, and are the direct
results Of the general policy Of the govern
ment Of doing work for them instead Of pay
ing them TO do the work and furnishing them
instructors in doing it.
Three years ago little or no work at farm
ing was done on one reservation. An ener-
getle agent and active assistants, the ju-
dicious use Of force and influence, the
attentlon TO personal wants and grievances.
often too trivial to need attention, have
produced the results shown in the report for
the season Of 1885.
Corn, oats, potatoes and vegetables are all
shat have been attempted. The first grows
finely on the turned sod Of the prairie, tile
grain being dropped In a hole punched
with a crOw-bar.
That the Indian will comprehend the needs
Of the soil is only matter Of time, and now
that they have only just begun to cultivate
andl are making fair progress in that line.
who can say but they may yet take advant-
tage OF the offers Of sections Of lands, and
manage and control the whole TO their ad-
vancement in the lines tof usefulness and
civilization. But grant us time. Hereditary
preJudlces are TO be overcome, a thousand
and one trivial details learned, and their
confidence in the whites restored, before tho
work Of progression in agricultural arts can
fairly have begun.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1887-06-04
DEADLY HOUSES.
Why So Many People Do Not Live to
Enjoy New Mansions.
philadelphia North Americana


81 have heard it said," said an old physi-
clan the other day. "'when you build house
let your enemy live in it the first year, let
your friend live in it the second, and the
third year live in it yourself My expert
ence leads me to believe that there is no old
saw that has more common sense in it than
this"
"WhyP" asked the North American re-
porter.
Because" was the reply, 81 find that
there is more sickness in Philadelphia, in
the new houses and newly built localities
than there is elsewhere. Don't look among
the poorer classes, whose houses are not OF
the cleanest, for diphtheria and kindred dis
eases. Look among tne new houses. There's
where you'll ind such things"
"Why is tbis?"
Because the house itself is green and un
fit to bge in. That is one reason, but it i:
not ell. The ground has just been newly
stirred, and in a great city 1t is filled with
J disease germs, which it gives of until it ma:
| become settled again. Oh, yes, heed the ole
| saw | have Just quoted
"Then another thing is very we'll worth re
| membering,'' the doctor continued, and tina
| n that a man should never build house AT
| ter he is forty Before that his system i
| not only vigorous, If it has not been abused
| but it is comparatively fresh. There Is n
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1887-06-04
SPECIAL SALE
Pine, Ash, Cherry, Walnut, Oak, Mahogany
CHAMBER SETS!
READ AND Remember.
SPECIAL SALE

No 1e1 Black Walnut Chamber Set with
eed afe C Portland any the Union We
have looking for Chamber Furniture
@ ON ne and feet The
The Bureau 40 inches Is inches deep and and 33 Inches
heavily moulded giving suhanial massive the
bur Pnee and the plate itself 30 inches IS nches the
and the cabinet the sides it's the Chairs the
s thoroughly the latest
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1887-06-04

broken-down tissue and fibre. A man less
than forty can stand it to 60 into new
house to live. If he contracts disease he
will most likely throw 1t off. Ii he is much
older than that he Is more liable to be over
yet. He certainly should not be If he is not
prematurely broken down; but that is very
safe age at which TO draw the line"
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$3.50.


Chamber FaTniue
search need Of Walnut set and wish to pay SPOT
call set will be
Itha sold with $55OO sell while
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$4,000

this All orders through the
mafo lining
lest making have cut $sS o0 on one
styles in price
price from 5000 100000 In solid Cherry with
ian $8 $35OO0 Pine, $1,000 $35O0 In
exhibit
Of
land We special
beauti
flu prices from $4,000 to $4,000
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THE PORTLAND DAILY PRESS.

Published every day Sundays excepted by the
PORTLAND PUBLISHING COMPANY,
AT 81 EXCHANGE STREET, PORTLAND, ME.
TERMS Eight Dollars Year. To mail sub-
scribers. Seven Dollars Year,if paid In advance.
RATES OF ADVERTISEMENT inch OF space
the length Of column, or twelve lines nonpariei
constitutes square
sI6o per square daily first week; 7s cents per
tinuing every other day after first week. SO cents
Half square three insertions or less, 20 cents
SPECIAL, NoTICEs, one-thrd additional.
Under head OF "AMUsEMENrs" and "AucrIoN
SALES" $500 per square per week. three inser.
tons or less, s16O.
THE MAINE STATE PRESS,
Published every THURSDAY MORNING at 50 6o
wear: II paid IN advance, $500 a year.
a Advertisements inserted in the "MAINE STATE
PREss1 (which has large circulation in every
part Of the State) for s1.00 per square for first in
sertion, and 80 cents per square for each subse-
quent insertion.
Address ali communications 20
PORTLAND PUBLISHING co.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1887-06-04

Annual Meeting.

TvHE Stockholders Of the Portland. Saco and
Il Portsmouth Railroad Company are hereby
notified that their Annual Meeting for the choice
OF DIRECTORS Tor the ensuing year, and for the
transaction OF such other business as may legally
be presented, will be held ON the FIRST Mon.
DAY, the sixth day of June 1887 at eleven O'Clock
station, in Kittery. Wv
By order of the Directors.
r. r: BARRETT, Clerk of the Company.
Portland, May 10, 1881. myI9eodfd
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johnson, whom do you take after in height
anyhow?"
"W'y doan know, I'm suah. Hant none Oh
my folks tail 'cept dat Oldes' boy oh mine, alI
reckon mus tex arter him."
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PARLOR FURNITURE.

Mohair Plush Paror Suit pieces We shall
manufacture The whole pieces can covered
Cents Chair Olive Pror Chair In Crimson Od
the this
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ANNUAL MEETING.

The Annual Meeting OF the St0ckh0ld-
ers OF the Seamless Shoe Company will
be held at the Office OF the Company, In
this city, ON Wednesday, June 3, at 2
p. m. C. ID. LIVERMORE, Clerk.
Portland, Me-, June L. 1887. 1e2dlw
Maine Medical Association.
TIyHE Thirty-fifth Annual Meeting of this Assoc
IL alton will be held at City Building, Portland
June IA 15 and 49, 1887.
my26d3w CHAS. d. SMITH, NJ, D., Sec.
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International Telegraph Co.
VtHE Annual Meeting of the International Tele-
graph Co. will be holden at the office of
Brown q Josselyn, all Commercial street, Port
laud Me-, on Tuesday, June 7th, at 3 o'clock p.
m, Tor the choice Of directors and for any other
legal business A. ID. BROWN. clerk
Portland. Me-. May %. 1897 mY27d1Ws
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S 5 5 o o !.

putting instead OF two
attractions week,
the set quarter down and 5000 per month un-
ill paid
aled ut SS5OO we shall sell this week
n combination a Crushed Plush for
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1887-06-04

Colonel G. W. Fulton, Is the elder brother Of
American. Though he his nearing his sew
enty-seyenth birthday, the fact of his riding
forty miles in single day is evidence that
age has not impaired his health and vigor.
He is well known in Baltimore and Phila-
daInhia
The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1887-10-08
Producing Fire from Ice.

Tho London correspondent of LIE
Monitcur de Ia Photographic writes to
that Journal that in the middle of the
winter which has just elapsed a student
made a lens of ice, with which he lit
the pipes of some of the skaters on the
Serpentine by means Of the solar rays
an experiment, he says, which was
first performed in the polar regions by
DR.. Scoresby, to the great establishment
of the sailors, for they could not under.
stand why tho ice did not freeze the
beams of the sun. We may remark
that Prof. Tyndall at times would set
fire at the Royal Institution to Il little
heap of gunpowder with rays from the
electric arc concentrated upon the
powder by means of a lens of ice. His
explanation was that although ice
absorbs rays of certain wave lengths,
and is gradually melted thereby, other
waves it does not absorb, and these
latter produce the heating effect at the
focus of the lens. 1t is wholly Qucs-
ton of the relative motions of the
molecules of frozen water and the mo-
tons OF tho waves of light when there
is discord between the two the hiscOr.
dant waves pass through the ice with
out absorption.-Byi Journal of
ROtOgyaphy.
The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1887-10-08
WATERWAYS CONVENTION.

To tho People ofthe Mississippi Valley:
The object principally for which the
Exc cutive Commute on the Improve
meet Of the Western WatA,-Ways was
organized, being t. aid aud encourage
Continued aud united action on the
part of the people TO have the waters
ways improved, and ,u tu,ther the
means by which their thought and wi
may bc impressed upon the Legislative
and executive power vi the Guvern-
ment, the people of Memphis, Tonnes
see, through the herein address. have
requested Call for Il convention, and
the need Of counsel by reason Of the
failure Of the River and Harbor bill,
passed by ,h. last Congress, t. become
Il law, and by virtue IT the power in
me vested, do issue This, my cali for
a convention on the Improvement of
the Western Waterways, to be h, III
in the city of Memphis, Tennessee, on
the Goth and 2lst of October, 1887.
To this Convention, members Of Con.
gress, Governors of States, members o.:
Legislatures and mayors of cit
les are invited 10 attend, and to
which Convention all trade, CONNER
cial, manufacturing, mt chanicai, labor
ing, agricultural, river and munich
pal organizations Of States, cities and
counties in the Mississippi, Missouri
and Ohio river valleys are also invited
and urged to send delegates.
d. b. WOOD, Ch'm'n.
JOHN w. BRYANT, Asst Sec'y.
p. S.-For further information, adj
dress, w. A. EyERNIAN,
Sec'y Elk. Com. Tenn. ssee,
Merchants Ex., Memphis, Tenn.
The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1887-10-08

II it is the plan of the ring to contest
every parish in which Nichols has a
majority, plan of retaliation can be
readily adoptcd.-iMrertpo'f Demo
crut.
OF course the Nichols faction will
have 10 fight the devil with fire, bat
you see where tho split in the State
Convention comes in. This is what
ye third man wants to guard against,
and il is the imperative duty of every
good and true Democrat to help save
the party. McEncry and Nichols
both must 60.
The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1887-10-08
Meeting OF the state Central Committee.

HEADQUARTERS DEM. STATE CENTRAL
Committee, Baton Rouge, La, Oct. Is, 1857.
SIE-In the call of meeting of the
State Central Committee, "Thursday"
was enormously substituted for "Tues-
day" TO prevent mistakes 1 have
amended the call 81 as to read, "Thurs.
day, Oct. 90. 1887, Parlor L, St. Charl' s
lIotel.'
The meeting of the Democratic State
Central Committee will, therefore, be
he hold on Thursday, Oct. 20, 1887, at
II o'clock ~, in PaIlor =, ST. Charles
Hotel, New Orleans. The ait ndance
of every member of the committee is
respectfully requested, as business of
Importance is to be transacted.
LEON JAsTEEMsKI, Pres't.
The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1887-10-08

The gentlemen who participate in
the meeting at West Monroe on the
10th ultimo are content TO be dubbe q
the t'saivation army" If they can de
feat ring rule and bossism and restore
the control of affairs to the hands of
the white majority in Ouachita parish
they will have accomplished noble
mission and be entitled TO the appelIa-
tion,
The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1887-10-08

Respecting the card of Capt. w. T..
Oaks, In last weeks issue of the West
Monroe Union, in so far rs it raises a
personal issue with the chairman Of the
meeting of the 29lh ultimo, We have
no word TO say, nor any comment to
make. But since It may influence pc.
litical opinions in the parish, wo regard
it % being within our province to cor
rect certain inaccuracies contained
therein as to matters OF fact.
There was no motion TO request the
withdrawal from the meeting of per-
sons not in sympathy with its objects.
The chairman did not say that it was a
good motion, did not express any ap-
prevail OF the suggestion made by Mr..
Garrett TO that effect, and as a matter
of fact was not in sympathy with Mr..
Garrett 10 that matter. Tho chairman
of the meeting did not state 1t as a fact
that tho "Union and Bulletin had been
bought up by the rings" what he did
say was that cit was currently rumored
that the Bulletin and Union had been
bought up"
1t is not fact, 80 we have been re-
liably Informed, that Mr.. Uriah Mill
saps, the chairman of the meeting,
made any effort, unscrupulous or 9TH
erwisc, at any time, to purchase the
West Monroe Union. Immediately
prior to tho transfer of tho control of
that paper to Capt. Oaks there was an
effort made by the business men of
West Monroe, with Maj. Flournoy as
the chief spirit in the movement, to
secure such patronage for tho paper as
would keep it on its feet, and this was
sought to be done solely in the BUSH
ness interest of the town, and without
any reference to politics Whatever.
Our readers can rely on it that these
arc facts.
The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1887-10-08

Wonder if the administration organs
who arc so rabid and rancorous in ap.
plying such terms as "malignants''
and "rag-tag and bob-tails" TO all who
oppose them, arc aware that they have
done more by their utilization to injure
McEnery than all other causes cons
bined: Mud batteries bespatter those
who work them. When everybody
knows that Nichols has substantial,
respectable, heightened supporters in
every parish in the State, 1t weakens
Mcljnery for his supporters TO cry out,
'srag. tag aud bob-taiis." How DO such
epithets suit such men AS Louis Bush,
Henry &. Miller, Don Gallery, NJ. j.
Foster and hundreds Of other able aud
true friends of Nichols: Tho vitu-
peration INDUCED in by the McEnery
press is not only absurd but it shows
again that "whon the gods would de-
s,roy they first make mad"
The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1887-10-08

The Bulletin processes not 10 under
stand the purport of the meeting ut
Yves, Monroe on the ooh ultimo. 1t
characterizes the meeting as Gan as
semhly Of men styling themselves
Democrats" refers to the fact with
"ghoulish glce" that the circulars call
ing the meeting were printed in red
ink and i'll other ways attempts TO
clothe the meeting aud proceedings
The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1887-10-08

SCI
with strangeS nd mysterious aspect.
Itstatee5 that the "ostensible object of
the instIgators of the movement was to
establish what they call white su'
premacy' in this parish" end in order
to point an Inconsistency alluded to
the fact that three negro preachers
were present. ftgtf',j.. ~ ~
In the first place the objects Of the
meeting were plainly SGT forth in that
"awfuP' circular of rcd, and were un-
mistakable. 1t was a meeting of white
Democrats opposed 10 ring govern
ment and bossism and for tho purpose
of organizing the white people 10 the
some weight in Democratic councils.
1t was composed of men not only ssstyl-
ing' themselves Democrats, but who
are and always have been Democrats
and none of the milk -and-water kind.
1t was not a public mass meeting, but
a meeting of Democrats opposed to
cA45t4uS HUctuVe4S III ouuCHta paEt6H
for tho purpose of discussing the situa-
ton and formulating policy and line
Of action, and it was but natural that
enemies were not wanted in the camp
and those of the ring persuasion who
were present can only lay the blame of
the request to retire TO their own in-
trusion. AS to the "three negro
preachers" they were there on their
own motion simply as spectators and
took no part whatever in the proceed
ings, and if they did not sufficiently
understand tho import of the request
to retire the meeting was not respon-
siblo therefor and tho published pro-
ceedings show that their presence was
entirely disregarded.
Whatever may he said TO the contra
~ the movement is started under au.
spiclous circumstances and as time
passes it will gain strength and uitf-
mately terminate in victory.
The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1887-10-08
Our Fifteen Great Inventions.
CSafety Nalve.l

The fifteen great American inven-
tons of worldwide adoption are: ~
The cotton gin; (2) the planning ma.
chine; (3) the grass mower and rea.
per (4) the rotary printing press (5)
navigation by steam; (G) the hot air
engine; % the sewing machine; Isl
the india rubber industry; (9) the
machine manufacture of horseshoes;
(lO) the sand blast for carving (1D tho
electric lath Q2) the grain eleva-
tor; (l3) artificial ice making on
large scale QI) the electric magnet
and its practical application (l5l the
tricphOne.
The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1887-10-08

The New Orleans States eXultinsly
of office by the bulldozers. Now, ev.
erybody in Ouachita parish will re-
member that the bulidoZers opposed
calling Il Constitutional Convention in
1878. McEnery himself stumped the
parish against the calling of a Conven-
ton and was an ardent and devoted
supporter of Nichols administration.
Theobalds voted against calling the
Convention. 1t is, therefore, palpable
that tho States has got its history
wrong.
The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1887-10-08

1t Is alright for half dozen or dozen
ring men to get together in secret
caucus and nominate parish ticket to
be forced upon the people by means of
the negro vote but it is all wrong for
about Go white Democrats to assemble,
privately, secretly If you will, to de-
wise means TO put stop to such
practices.
The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1887-10-08

pen made to receive it, the result was
called out by the tally keepers, and the
result was 1l9 bushels VI corn.
The corn was of the Moseby variety
and very heavy, weighing G2 pounds
clean corn to the barrel. Mr.. HarwelI
was conplimepted by every one, and
certainly ought to feel proud, since this
is, to tho best Of our know ledyc, better
than any yield of corn ever made in
this State.-Dcmocrot.
LINCOLN.
The policy jury have ordered an tlec
ton throughout the parish on the
whiskey question, the election to be
held on the Sth of November. Best!r
yourselves prOhibiiionis;s.
Mr.. a. II. May field has recently
sustained the loss of two fine calves
which were killed by tho night trains
passing this point. Quite number OF
cattle have been killed al ZIG tvs road
during the past few mnni.S.- The
railroad company will no doubt tinu it
cheaper after u while TO wire in the road
than to pay for the cattle, to say moth
ing of the increased safety to the pas
sengers who travel over the road.-Cut-
igra2M.
RAPIDES.
John Leckie, a white man born and
raised at Alexandria and who was
in the merchantile business just at the
edge of the corporation limits, was hor-
ribly murdered on the night of the Sd.
When discovered he was found in the
small room back of his store on the bed
where the body had apparently been
placed. Blood stains were visible
on the floor and bed. The body was
resting on the bed with the legs over
the side and the arms folded over the
abdomen. The right hand pocket of
the pants on the corpse was turned in
side out. At the foot of the bed was
found money to the amount of 500,
! where it is supposed the deceased had
placed it for security.
Toche Jenkins, a colOred man who
was at Leckie's store after every one
else on the night of the murder, had
left, has been arrested on suspicion and
is now in jail. Blood stains we're found
on his shirt. Leckie was man Of
family and leaves wife and children.
CoNCORDIA.
| On Friday of last week little Isac
Clayton Dale, aged two and haifyears
adopted child of Mr.. and Mrs. d. X.
Hunt, was poisoned by eating mush'
rooms. EIe was on the commons play
ing with some older children who had
gathered the mushrooms to play with,
and had eaten considerable quantity
of them before the fact was known to
any one. When the poison began 10
do its work, he left of playing and
went into the house and complained
of being sick. In short while the
powerful narcotic effect of the plant set
in, and ali hopes OF his recovery: for
while, were abandoned. Drs. Miller
and Tough, who were Immediately
called in, employed the antidotes that
they thought most likely TO countcract
the poison, and finally the child was
aroused and the effect Of the poison
arrested. The child was up at play the
following morning and is now fully
roco red itl0li0 Sentinel.
The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1887-10-08

We understand that the ring count
on carrying the parish against the will
of tho majority because they do not
believe that white Democrats opposed
to tho ring have the ncrrc to enforce
their will. We predict that the ring
will find out hist they have not mo-
nopoly Of the nerve of this parish.
The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1887-10-08

We feel so firmly convinced that the
election of third man is SO essential
to the peace, prosperity and progress
of our State, that we will wager that
both Nichols and MclInery viii! con.
TESS, in less than twelve months from
now, that In this war of factions the
support of a third man is the only
manly and patriotic course.
The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1887-10-08

Gen. Nichols is soldier and states
mana patriot. His name is 4 house
hold word throughout the length and
breath of Louisiana. Tho failure,
therefore, TO invite him to address the
people at the barbecue here on the 18Th
Is painfully conspicuous.